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app

[ap] / æp /
NOUN
application
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After several more panicked messages, Gavalas said he was going to restart the Gemini app.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

IBM’s reach spans database systems, app developer tools, and other multimodal computing environments that process and analyze several different types of data.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

I knew that kind of spending wasn’t sustainable so I started using a budgeting app.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Attendees could also check out who else was single in the audience using the Next Fun Thing’s dating app, which facilitates meeting people IRL at the event company’s activities, from speed dating to kickball.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

I’d opened the music app and shuffled all of my songs.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks